It's another boy for Britney Spears

LOS ANGELES - Singer Britney Spears gave birth to her second
child, a boy, early Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to Us Weekly
and the National Enquirer.

The birth occurred by Caesarean section around 2 a.m. at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Us Weekly reported. The baby boy
weighed in at 6 pounds, 11 ounces.

Spears' publicist, Leslie Sloan, could not immediately confirm
the report.

The singer's father, however, confirmed the birth to Access
Hollywood, saying, "Everything is great."

The child is the second for Spears, 24, and husband Kevin
Federline. Their first son, Sean Preston, will turn a year old on
Thursday. Federline has two children with ex-girlfriend Shar
Jackson.

Hospital tried to save Anna Nicole Smith's
son

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - Medical personnel applied CPR and other
lifesaving measures to the son of Anna Nicole Smith for 22 minutes
before he was pronounced dead, the head of the hospital said
Tuesday.

Daniel Smith, 20, was found unresponsive Sunday morning in a
chair in a hospital room where his mother was recuperating from
giving birth to a baby girl three days earlier.

"Resuscitative efforts using advance life-support protocol
continued for 22 minutes without response," Barry Rassin, president
and CEO of Doctors Hospital in Nassau, said at a news
conference.

Pennsylvania woman who rewarded son with marijuana
pleads guilty to drug charges

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A woman facing drug charges admitted in
court that she smoked marijuana with her 13-year-old son, often to
reward him for doing his homework.

Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, pleaded guilty to several
misdemeanor drug charges Monday in Adams Country court and will be
sentenced Nov. 27.

She admitted she had been smoking marijuana with her son since
he was 11 and said she had also smoked with two of his friends,
ages 17 and 18.

Livelsberger pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of corruption
of minors, possession with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia,
possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a small amount of
marijuana and possession of a small amount of marijuana with intent
to distribute. The plea agreement did not stipulate a sentence.

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - More than two decades after
12-year-old Johnny Gosch disappeared while on his newspaper route
and became one of the first missing children to be put on a milk
carton, a potential new clue to his fate was literally dropped on
his mother's doorstep.

Inside an unmarked package more than two weeks ago were two
photographs that Noreen Gosch says show her son bound and
gagged.

"When I saw them I could barely breathe," she said.

One black-and-white shot shows Johnny on a bed, wearing the same
sweat pants he had on when he vanished, the boy's mother says. She
says the other photo, this one color, shows him in a similar pose
with two unidentified boys who are also bound and gagged.

Investigators with Iowa's Department of Criminal Investigation
said they are analyzing the photos, trying to determine their
authenticity, where they might have come from, and whether there
are any fingerprints or DNA that can be lifted from them.

"They don't appear to be doctored. It's the source of the
photographs that we're looking at. Are they connected to any other
cases? And is it Johnny Gosch in the photos?" said John Quinn,
agent in charge of the case for the DCI.

"It's a priority. Absolutely it is," Quinn said. "Were taking it
very seriously. We have some promising leads in regards to
information from the photographs."

The freckle-faced, gap-toothed boy was last seen before daybreak
on Sept. 5, 1982. His wagon, filled with copies of the Sunday
paper, was discovered near his West Des Moines home, but there have
been few solid clues since then. Police have said they believe he
was abducted.

Coming just a year after the highly publicized abduction of
6-year-old Adam Walsh in Florida, the disappearance of Johnny Gosch
was seen as a similar watershed event. If it can happen in
heartland Iowa, parents felt, it can happen anywhere.

The case contributed to what some regard as an obsessive fear of
children being abducted by strangers. Most kidnappings are
committed by family members, not strangers, according to studies by
the U.S. Justice Department.

"Once every child becomes vulnerable, then it can become an
obsession among all parents because it can happen to your child,"
said Paula S. Fass, a professor at the University of California at
Berkeley and author of "Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America."
"The fear that parents now walk around with is unlike anything that
we've experienced in the past."

Noreen Gosch said she believes her son was taken by child
pornographers and forced into sexual slavery.

She has told authorities that her son showed up at her door in
1997 with a stranger. She said he told her he feared for his life
and wouldn't give details about himself. No witnesses have
corroborated her account. Johnny's father, now divorced from Gosch,
has said he is not sure the visit ever occurred.

Gosch said she also believes her son's disappearance is
connected with the apparent kidnapping of a Des Moines boy, Eugene
Martin, who vanished two years after Johnny. Like Johnny, Eugene
was on his paper route in the early morning. Authorities say they
are unsure if the two cases are connected.

The National Center for Missing Children said it is examining
the other boys in the photograph and trying to match them against
its database of missing children.

"These kids have parents someplace," Gosch said. "I'm sure they
feel the same way I did. Hopefully we can do some good and give
these parents some peace."

Gosch, assistant manager at a Des Moines-area store, said she
believes the pictures are real. But as for why they have surfaced
now, she said: "I have no idea. I'm as shocked as anyone else."

"I kept looking at Johnny's little face in the black-and-white
photographs and I kept wondering if he was sitting there thinking,
`Are they going to kill me? Will they find me?"' she said. "It
really is so hard. Every time I look at them I practically get
sick."

WASHINGTON (AP) - The company that produces the "Girls Gone
Wild" tapes of young women baring their breasts and acting in other
sexual situations pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges and
agreed to pay fines totaling $2.1 million.

Mantra Films Inc., based in Santa Monica, Calif., made the plea
in U.S. District Court in Florida on charges of failing to maintain
proof of age and identification for its young performers in
sexually explicit films. It also failed to label its DVDs and
videotapes properly as required by federal law.

A second company owned by Mantra's founder, MRA Holdings LLC,
entered into a deferred agreement on charges of improper labeling.
Under that agreement with prosecutors, the charges would be
dismissed after three years if MRA Holdings cooperates with future
government prosecutions, admits wrongdoing and pays fines.

The two companies and their founder, Joseph Francis, will pay
$2.1 million in fines and restitution, the Justice Department
said.

Separate state charges in Florida alleging that two 17-year-old
girls were videotaped by a "Girls Gone Wild" cameraman in sexual
situations remain pending against Mantra and Francis.

"Tuesday's agreements ensure that Girls Gone Wild will comply
with an important law designed to prevent the sexual exploitation
of minors and puts other producers on notice that they must be in
compliance as well," said Assistant Attorney General Alice
Fisher.

An attorney for Mantra, Aaron Dyer, said the company would clean
up its record keeping.

The charges involved "serious record-keeping issues that
occurred several years ago," he said. "Mantra takes these issues
very seriously and has done everything it can to make sure this
never occurs again."

According to court papers, Mantra Films admitted to violating
record keeping and labeling laws while distributing the videos
during all of 2002 and part of 2003.

Founded in 1997, Mantra released 83 different titles and sold
4.5 million videos and DVDs in 2002, according to Hoover's Inc., a
business data firm in Austin, Texas.

TOKYO (AP) - Japan's long-awaited male heir to its Chrysanthemum
throne was named Hisahito - meaning "virtuous, calm and
everlasting" - in an age-old imperial rite in Tokyo on Tuesday.

The 6-day-old infant, who is third in line to the world's oldest
hereditary monarchy, was given his name in an ancient ceremony at a
Tokyo hospital where his mother, Princess Kiko, is recovering.

Hisahito, formed with the Chinese characters for "virtuous, calm
and everlasting," was chosen with the wish that the new prince has
a long, prosperous life, an even temper and peace of mind,
according to palace spokeswoman Yuka Shiina.

While Kiko and her husband Akishino looked on, a court official
wrote the baby's name on special rice paper with brush and ink and
placed it along with his personal crest in a wooden box next to the
new prince's pillow.

The crest, a stylized Japanese umbrella pine, will be used to
mark Hisahito's belongings.

Keeping with custom, Hisahito's name ends with the Chinese
character "hito," which means virtuous person, an appellation given
to male royals. The current emperor is his grandfather, Akihito,
whose father was Emperor Hirohito. The baby's father, commonly
known as Akishino, also was given the name Fumihito.

Celebrations over Hisahito's birth have been especially colorful
because it has forestalled a looming crisis for the imperial
family. Until his birth, Emperor Akihito's sons Akishino and Crown
Prince Naruhito had three daughters between them, but no sons.

On Tuesday, billboards across Tokyo carried news flashes
announcing the prince's new name. Banners congratulating Kiko on
her delivery still adorn government buildings and department
stores.

Still, court watchers have warned the future of Japan's imperial
family is still shaky with only one male heir in its youngest
generation. A 1947 law says only men can inherit the imperial
crown.

An expert panel last year recommended changing that law to allow
women on the throne - a proposal backed enthusiastically by Prime
Minister Junichiro Koizumi that would make the succession more
stable.

But conservatives mounted a harsh attack on the plan, saying it
would end centuries of tradition. Koizumi's likely successor, the
conservative chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, has said he will
not rush to take the proposal forward.

A recent poll has shown the Japanese public continue to back the
idea of a female monarch, despite Hisahito's birth. Fifty-six
percent of respondents to a poll published Monday by public
broadcaster NHK said women should be allowed to inherit the
imperial throne, while 33 percent were opposed.

NHK polled 1,674 Japanese by telephone on Sept. 8-10, receiving
replies from 1,075. It gave no margin of error.

WAXAHACHIE, Texas (AP) - A 49-year-old man was charged with
aggravated robbery and kidnapping in connection with the death of
the elderly aunt of "Dateline NBC" anchor Stone Phillips.

Miguel Arciba, who had known Doris Phillips for several years,
was charged Monday, three days after he led investigators to her
body in an abandoned farmhouse near her home, Ellis County
Sheriff's Lt. Clint Tims said.

Arciba is accused of abducting Phillips, 81, but he denied
killing her and told investigators that another person told him
where to find the body, Tims said. He said other arrests were
possible.

Phillips was reported missing from her Reagor Springs home,
about 30 miles south of Dallas, on July 26.

Arciba, who remained jailed Tuesday on $250,000 bond, was
arrested Sept. 3 after he was linked to an item taken from
Phillips' home, authorities said. His parents had worked for years
for Phillips and her late husband, according to Tims.

Former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey to tell Oprah
Winfrey about declaring his homosexuality

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Former Gov. James E. McGreevey, who had
been publicly silent since announcing two years ago that he was gay
and was resigning, arrived at the studios of the "Oprah Winfrey
Show" Tuesday to tell his story.

Winfrey landed the exclusive interview with McGreevey because of
her sense of faith and spirituality, according to friends of the
former governor.

McGreevey is said to be a fan of Winfrey's education and
anti-poverty work, two issues to which the former governor is
devoting more time in his post-political life.

The 49-year-old Democrat drew national attention when he called
a news conference in 2004 and, with his wife at his side, publicly
declared "I am a gay American." The couple have since separated and
McGreevey lives with his partner, Australian financial adviser Mark
O'Donnell, 42.

About a dozen friends accompanied McGreevey and O'Donnell to
Chicago for the taping scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. Some
segments of the show, including clips from the New Jersey home
McGreevey shares with O'Donnell, were filmed previously.

McGreevey waved and smiled at reporters from a sport utility
vehicle as he arrived at the television studio Tuesday but did not
speak to the media.

The interview will air Sept. 19, the same day McGreevey's
political memoir, "The Confession," goes on sale. The book traces
his life through two failed marriages, his rise to the governor's
office and the sudden, public implosion of his political
career.

McGreevey, a Democrat, announced his homosexuality and his
impending resignation in the same speech on Aug. 12, 2004, and
acknowledged that he had been involved in an affair with a man.

State Sen. Ray Lesniak, who was interviewed by Winfrey's staff
in preparation for the program, said they were interested in how
McGreevey is now compared with how he was as governor.

"They are two different people," Lesniak said. "The first person
was very guarded and very concerned about how he was perceived. He
was driven to achieve and was somewhat uncomfortable.

"The McGreevey I know now has accepted who he is and has shared
that with the rest of the world," he said. "He is comfortable with
himself and concerned about being authentic to himself and his
beliefs."